03-12-2012

PRODUCTION: French-Polish Documentary Cenotaphe in Production

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    PRODUCTION: French-Polish Documentary Cenotaphe in Production Cenotaphe, photo by Dorota Krupińska

    WARSAW: French director Leila Ferault-Levy and Polish producer Marcin Latałło’s Camera Obscura are in production on Cenotaphe (Pomnik), an intimate documentary on crimes of genocide committed during World War II.

    The film turns on Ferault-Levy’s family and their struggle to survive as her uncle, Edouard Rosenblatt, is born in hiding in a Polish stable in 1944, shortly before his father's execution. His mother later immigrated to France to marry Ferault-Levy’s grandfather. The film follows a return to Poland to build a cenotaph, an empty grave to pay tribute to a Holocaust victim.

    Ferault-Levy, who wants to provoke an "uncomfortable conversation of high importance for society and post-war families," is shooting in France, Israel and for 12 days locations in Poland, including Krakow and Auschwitz on a budget reported as about 167,000 EUR.

    France's Bix Films (www.bixfilms.fr) is coproducing with BIP TV (www.bip-tv.fr) and Poland's Camera Obscura. Cenotaphe won financial support from the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (www.cnc.fr), Procirep et Engoa, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah  (www.fondationshoah.org) , Region Alsace  (www.region-alsace.eu) and the city of Strasbourg.

    Cenotaphe premiere is scheduled for May 2013.

    Crew:
    Director: Leila Ferault-Levy
    Cinematographer: Olivier Bertrand
    Sound: Fabien Krzyzanowsky
    Production Manager (Poland) Adriana Kulig

    Cast:
    Eodouard Rosenblatt

    Production Contact:
    Camera Obscura: Marcin Latallo
    ul. Foksal 12/14 m.33
    00-366 Warszawa

    Adriana Kulig
    Phone: +48 22 8383962
    Mobile Phone: +48 600 824 353